Do you have any nervous habits? I do...& I wonder if I am abnormal.
I am an odd one, Charlie Brown.I have a habit and it is very odd. I do the following to distract myself from pain, or when I am nervous, or out of force of habit….1) I take a pen cap off a bic pen, one...
View ArticleIf Biden Wants to Make Us Feel Safe Again, A Public Inauguration is the WORST...
I will be completely frank and say that I think the public inauguration is pure arrogance and foolishness.If Biden and the other Democratic people attending die there, then he’s essentially thrown...
View ArticleFauci dubs Long Covid "post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection" or PASC
In a ‘wide-ranging’ briefing on Wednesday, Feb 24, the White House COVID-19 Response Team's chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, explained that what we’re looking at with Long-Haul COVID-19...
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Mental Health: It's Random
I watched the Prince Harry-Meghan interview. I believe them and I feel compassion for their difficulties. If it were up to me and I were a British taxpayer, I would be using this occasion to demand the...
View ArticleWYFP - Midterm Blues
Midterms — when my grade anxiety goes into high gear. I finished all my midterms Thursday, and I’m so over it. I know I got an A for geology lecture, and now I have 2 days off a week to study more, and...
View ArticleTop Comments: Perchance to Dream Edition
Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd...
View ArticleWYFP - Finals Hell, or How I Am Avoiding My Final Paper
As the days get longer and we continue to count the Omer (the 7 weeks between Passover and Shavuot) the pressure is ramping up until now — the final week of the semester And what am I doing? Anything...
View ArticleEvery Republican pushing anti-trans bills needs to read the latest report on...
As Pride Month comes closer, you’ll likely see corporations including rainbows in their advertisements and on T-shirts. You might also notice an uptick in LGBTQ-related content in your favorite...
View ArticleDEALING WITH DEPRESSION AND PTSD
Another morning and I wake up. What’s today going to bring? I take the first breath of the day. My first feeling of the day is not good. I feel empty and depressed. I’m struggling to get up. I don’t...
View ArticleBack in the hospital with bad news. Anyway we can get a music thread going?
3 days ago I was rushed back to the hospital. They're looking at possible stroke again, second in under a year as well as severe chest pains.Today I had 4 tests done...stress test, eeg, ct scan of 2...
View ArticleThis holiday season, I'm grateful for antidepressants
In many ways, I’m extremely privileged when it comes to surviving the COVID-19 pandemic—I work remotely, have excellent employer-provided health insurance, and I don’t live with any chronic health...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Saturday Science
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise above the...
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What if 'fanaticism and extremism' breaks it all, dragging the rest of us...
Umair Haque writing in Eudamedia and Co begins his argument in his piece The Idiots Aren’t Going to Make It — But What About the Rest of Us? by noting what so many of us have argued for years on end —...
View ArticleDeaf LGBTQ youth with family support are half as likely to contemplate...
Here at Daily Kos, we’re making an ongoing effort to cover the Republican assault on trans rights. Conservatives are doing their best to try various routes to isolate and discriminate against trans...
View ArticleEco-Anxiety Is a Healthy Response to Dire Circumstances
In life, losses happen and grief is real. Don’t be bright-sided. Sane people don’t bounce into funerals and implore the bereaved to be happy and deny death. It doesn’t work for climate change either....
View ArticleSmall study: VitB6 100mg ameliorates anxiety and depression.
In brief: double-blinded research at the University of Reading (UK) with about 470 adults —18–58 years of age (mean 23.0, median 20), roughly 80% female— randomly assigned for one month to placebo...
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The Thwaites glacier is holding back global coastal devastation by only the...
This was a pioneering study of the ocean floor, made possible by recent technological advancements in autonomous ocean mapping and a bold decision by the Wallenberg foundation to invest into this...
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Moon missed in the mist
I forgot to make a plan.Not that plan— I voted, and requested my ballot by mail in a timely fashion. Completed and returned it, even managing the surprise requirement that I had to have two (TWO!)...
View ArticleMental Health, The Western States, And Psychedelic Therapy
The use of psychedelics in the treatment of mental health conditions, for personal use, spirituality, and self-exploration, or even for gaining an extra edge at work has been gaining traction in recent...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest - 12/19/2022
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest, Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise above...
View ArticleWhen you were a child was there a particular show (or episode of a show) that...
I have always been a quiet guy, always watching my environment because I knew one thing.What scares me to death is something shocking. I can handle most “scary” things like blood and guts stuff...
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Disney, DeSantis, Darkness, Deconstruction, defalsifying, deep pockets and...
This will prove interesting. Disney has a huge family friendly non-controversial message about love, kindness, death (coco), and the importance of family, and finding yourself despite bigotry and...
View ArticleFBI Nuclear Drills in Houston - fear politics/journalism destroys truth and...
Rabbi Arnstein is about peace. Peace of the soul. This article is about pushing your fear button. Local conservative online news puts out an article about the FBI holding nuclear drills in Houston....
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Let's thank Drag Queen Harpy Daniels for helping the USS Reagan get 2022...
Minorities were the object of scorn and the military was desegregated and Eisenhower took Truman’s order and made it happen. And there were those that were violently opposed. But Eisenhower was no...
View ArticleTexas, God, Medicine, Gender affirming care, Knowledge, and Error
We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one.In that regard, the state of Texas is...
View ArticleIf Gender dysphoria and gun violence are about mental health, then let's make...
I wonder if someone born with a heart defect thinks they should have a working heart? I wonder if someone born with a deformed limb thinks they should have access to health care that would solve that...
View ArticleCartoon: Hello it's me
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View ArticleCoping with overwhelming anxiety
I woke today with a feeling of dread. A fear that I don't have whatever it takes ro get through the day.When I think of the things I have to do I just don't think I can jungle everything I think I...
View ArticleY R the 4th Estate + the WH Not Calling Out House Leadership?
Msm reporting today, 7-19-23, appears to show that TFG is actively directing the House Republican caucus to abuse their public communications privileges as members of Congress, to mouth falsehoods, sow...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest, science edition - faster EVs, mini solar arrays, SW US...
Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a...
View Article14,600 Days.
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS FRANK AND UNCOMFORTABLE DISCUSSION OF SUICIDAL IDEATIONS. THIS MAY UPSET SOME READERS. 1983, Day 1 Sometime between August and November of 1983, I tried to hang...
View ArticleA Social Security Disability Denial, the NY DOL, Coursera, and an Anxiety...
The last Diary I posted was about how I had just been denied for Social Security Disability, and was waiting to find out if my lawyer was going to drop my case. Unfortunately, she did, and after...
View ArticleThe Strength of Uncertainty
A recent story on CNN (www.cnn.com/...) got me to thinking on when I felt the most at peace and realized that it was when events were uncertain, but depended on my actions to a large extent. This was,...
View ArticleThis is my brain these days
Inner monologues of an anxiety-prone, catastrophizing Democrat who also surges with hopefulness:Headline: Geert Wilders shocks Europe with far-right populist victoryMy Brain: Oh no! It’s 2015 Brexit /...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety, You Suck
So as some of you might know, I graduated last week from college with a bachelor’s in anthropology, that I started in 1987. Great, right? I worked hard and all that. It still seems a little unreal....
View ArticleManaging the "Stupids" In Your Life
National Suicide and Crisis Hotline 988 (www.nimh.nih.gov/...)It is nearing the end of January.Nature has hit us pretty hard. We’ve already had out tenth winter storm come across the mainland U.S., and...
View ArticleWYFP - Anxiety, You Suck
So we made it through another week, go team us! I’m struggling to finish up my grad school application, mostly because my anxiety is telling me I will never get in so why bother? Thankfully I have a...
View ArticleThe Noise and Disarray of Trying to Wrap Your Head Around Climate Change
I will be 24 this July. Almost weekly I confront myself with the idea of if I have even a glimpse of a future that’s worth living for or if it’ll be better for everyone if I take myself out of the...
View ArticleTHE GROWING TOLL: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS IMPACTING MENTAL HEALTH GLOBALLY
SHARE THISSUBSCRIBEClimate change is no longer a distant threat; it’s a present-day reality impacting communities worldwide. Beyond the visible environmental devastation, climate change is also...
View ArticleSometimes you need to write something different.
Sometimes you feel overwhelmed by events, you need a break, for sanity's sake.No, I haven’t forgotten, IP, Project 2025, or even the climate and environmental crisis etc, etc, but I still want to...
View ArticleDehumanization: The highway to evil. Anxiety and Buddhism.
I’ll start with:Humanism and empathy may be possible on a small interpersonal level, indeed sometimes we punish the lack thereof with our laws. The less personal it becomes the more they fade...
View ArticleHow Do You Feel about the November Election? Confident? Anxious? Time to do...
How Do You Feel about the November Election? A lot of us have some anxiety. We really want to see: A Harris Presidency: We can’t afford to lose our democracy to Trump’s schemes. A Democratic...
View ArticleI'm confident about Harris, but I'm also anxious that Trump will still win.
Okay. I think it’s time I posted something on here. I’m a 41-year old with Asperger’s living in Boise and I’m truly terrified about the possible results of the election. The polls show that the race is...
View Article-scratches head- Why "should" I be terrified, again?
What happens if I’m not? What if I’m, idk, verklempt instead? Giddy? Solicitous? Contemptuous? Aroused?Bemused?Skeptical?if I wanted clickbait, I’d...well, shit.Nonetheless. -plonk-Being generous and...
View ArticleAs We Approach Halloween, Expect Scary (and Useless) Election Articles
On October 26, 2012, CNN ran this piece about Obama struggling to reach white voters. They discussed he was hovering at 40% with them and needed 80% with minority voters to have a chance of holding on...
View ArticleStrange Forces Make This Election Unusually Unpredictable (VIDEO and text)
“How can it be so close?” Incomprehensible, when one considers that one of the candidates has a huge collection of what used to be considered “automatic disqualifiers” that somehow fail to drive away...
View ArticleLemmings On the Precipice? Or, Are We All So Exhausted From Being Misled For...
There used to be a time in these United States where a majority of us had confidence and trust in our institutions. That trust extended to local, state and national government, the press/media, and of...
View ArticleCartoon: Age of anxiety
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View ArticleDreams
Every night before I go to sleep, I give my subconscious a suggestion. I’ll have a restful sleep and wake up in a positive mood. And I will dream and remember it. My fulminating subconscious is free to...
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Saturday Top Comments: So What Now?
Previously, I mentioned that at the end of January I took a comprehensive neuropsychological exam to get some diagnoses. Welp, I got the results back a couple weeks ago. Here at Top Comments we welcome...
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